Boston is lucky enough to have Adam Lehman, ColdFusion's Product Manager at Adobe, to come to speak at the Boston CFUG about the impending ColdFusion Builder release (no, we don't know any dates yet, but the evidence indicates that it's soon). Now, I'm sure that the fact that this coming weekend is PAX East is a mere lucky coincidence in scheduling for Adam. However, if you are in or around the Boston area, this will be a great opportunity to get all the details about ColdFusion Builder straight from Adam and learn what to expect when it is finally released. If that's not enough, there will be food and prizes. The meeting is this Thursday (3/25) evening at 6pm at the new Adobe offices in Waltham. If you would like to RSVP, go to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/598426911, so register today!

Seven new projects and no updated ones this week in ColdFusion open source. I believe this is the first time in over three years of doing this update that its dedicated only to new projects. Lately the ColdFusion community has been releasing new projects at a rate I never would have conceived when I started these three years ago. I am particularly excited to see the community staking a claim to some space on GitHub since we often bypass the forums used by the development community at-large (like SourceForge) in favor of our own, somewhat insular forums (side note: Mike Henke is even doing a separate weekly update specific to GitHub on his site). To me, staking out territory within a community like GitHub can help fight the misperceptions of ColdFusion by many in the development community (definitely far better than picking fights with trash talkers on Twitter). Anyway, sorry for the tangent, but here's this week's update.

Two new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source (a shortened week due to my late post last week). All of the lucky people are at 360Flex in San Jose this week. From the various blog posts and tweets I have caught, it sounds like John and Tom put on another fantastic event. Here's hoping they keep the info coming for those of us not fortunate enough to attend. On to this week's open source posts.

Six new projects and ten updates this week in ColdFusion open source. This was another massive week of updates, announcements and tutorials. For example, Alagad released a number of new and existing projects to RIAForge this week, pushing the site above the 900 project mark (though not all are ColdFusion, a good percentage are). On a related side note, I will be phasing out the open source list (not the update) when I finally launch my new site design which I've been slowly finding time to finish. Its tough with this constant amount of releases to keep up and the list format doesn't work very well for this many projects. I do plan to continue these weekly updates for the foreseeable future however.

My experience at FOWA Miami 2010 ended with an afternoon workshop by John Resig covering jQuery that went from the basics of jQuery for those unfamiliar into some more advanced techniques. John described jQuery as a library that is designed to simplify the interaction between HTML and JavaScript. Essentially its intended to "route around the craziness of the DOM." John wrote it back in 2005 when he was working on an application but was tired of dealing with cross-browser issues. The goal was that one day you could code your application in one browser and it would work in all browsers (it doesn't route around CSS issues but jQuery doesn't change that).